Rolling stamp with counting mechanism for various printing purposes



Aug. 21, 1923. v

1 H. KOMUSIN GEB. LIEDTKE I ROLLING STAMP WITH COUNTING MECHANISM FORVARIOUS PRINTING PURPOSES Filed March 22 1922 .Jriuentom Patented Aug.21, 1923.

HELENE KOMUSIN, ens. LIEDTKE, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

.ROLLING STAMP WITH COUNTING MECHANISM VARIOUS PRINTING PURPOSES.

Application filed March 22, 1922. Serial No. 545,891.,

To all whomit may concern: Be it known that Lldnnnnn KoMnsIN, GEB.Lrnnrirn, a citizen of the German Republic, residing atwBerlin, Germany,have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in Rolling Stampswit-h Counting Mechanism for Various-Printing Purposes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

' This invention relates to a rolling stamp with counting mechanism forprinting purposes of any kind without use of stamps do signedfor-thespecial purpose and it comprises an arrangement for the lockingof the value-stamp after the printing of a determined number of stampsor if the counting Inechanism isfraudulously removed or if the countingmechanism should fail.

With the Counting devices of known construction the operation of thecounting mechanism is, so to say, continuous, as the counting mechanismsare fitted, according to the number of the figure-compositions to besupplied, with a corresponding number of figure disks. After the largestfigure has been printed. and registered the counting mechanism returnsto the zero-position and the figure disks begin to work again. It hashitherto not been the custom to make counting mechanisms stopautomatically at a predetermined figure nor to limit their use to thisdetermined figure.

This invention has for its object,.to improve the construction of acounting mech anism in such a manner that, at a prede 'terrnined figure,this counting mechanism,

and with the same also adrivingmechanism connected with it, are stoppedand locked.

. The figure, at which the stopping occurs is either always the same orvariable.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood, I shallproceed'to describe the same with reference to the form of construe tionshown by way of example on the accompanying drawing, wherein I I Fig. 1is a front elevation partly in section.

Fig. 2 isa sid elevation partly in section. Figs. 3,4 and 5 showc'onstructiona'l details and Fig. 3 is a section on line A-B of Fig.4. i

In Fig. 1 the well known arrangement of the rolling' stamp' is shown indotted -lines; The counting mechanism is controlled in the well knownmanner by the projections a. The counting mechanism consists of thecounter b which is moved by the engagement of its driving-arm c engagingwith the fork d of the lever 0. With this object in view th driving arm0 is keyed upon the shaft 6 of the counter. On the upper end of thisshaft 5 a sleeve ismounted which has a button'y'. At the lower endofshaft 6 an annular'disk y" is arranged which has a hand '31 at one sideand an abutment arm y at the other side- (Fig. 5). A spring Z woundaround the shaft 1). bears with its upper end against the hub of thedriving arm 0. The spring Z acting upon the annular disk y presses the.hand y upon the upper edge of the counter which has two indentations b"in which the hand 3 and i arm y may move.

In the casing of the rolling stamp on the wall '1 the bOXQisfiXed whichis open at the bottom end and has a 'pivot pin k on the side turned awayfrom the wall 1'. A lever 6 having two} arms and o is pivotally mountedon the pin is. The upper end (i of lever c isfork-shaped. On the innersurface of the lever an angular abutment e. .13 arranged, an angularabutmentu projecting from the. lower end of said lever. A spring oninserted in pivot pin is acts upon pin 'm' of the lever e and pressesthe lever into the initial position. At each rolling'movement of theprinting cylinder f the projections a are moved by the toothed wheelsg'and'h against the arm 2' which isthusraised so oscillation istransferred to the: arm '0 which is influenced by a spring m, thecounting mechanism being thus moved according to the number ofoperations of the rolling stamp. 'An angle lever '11. is pivotablymounted on a pin 0' of the counter box 2 in front of the arm 6 andpressed against said arm by the-action of a spring 0,'the

that it oscillatesaround its fulcrum 7a.: This owing to the action. of aspring 1" attached with one end to axle p and with the other end to wallZ so that its arm qbears against the bottom of the countergthedownwardly projecting arm .9 of said lever being in contact with anabutment u ofan arm a; v'vherethe path of the" projection a.

by the accidental or fraudulentdepression lever e which is thus forcedthrough the of the lever i and'the bringing out of engagement of the arm6 with the fork (l is prevented. j v

If the counting mechanism were fraudulentlyremoved the armqwould looseits hold and it would consequently swing upward under the action ofspring 1". The end 5 of the lever acts thus upon the abuts ment of lever6, so that the lever v is swung to the left and so that its arm o getsinto This pro jection a would at the continuing of the rollingcmove'ment be finally be low the arm '1;

and push the same with the lever 6 up to the limit of-its travel,whereupon the projection mwillbe held and locked by arm a so that therolling 7 stamp is I locked; i I

At the reinsertion of .the counter 7; the lever g is pressed down by thelower sur face of the counter, lever 8 being swung back intensioningspring r and in releasing the abutment 14; At the is returned"to the position of rest through the action of spring m and: the arnr vis moved out of thc'path of the projection 1.

'In order to prevent the use of the rolling:- stamp as soon as thenumber disks of the counting mechanism have arrived at a predeterminedtotal the following arrangement is provided; if I a A disk w is mountedupon the upper number-disk'which has pins 112 or the like at itscircumference and which revolves reg; ularly and simultaneously withsaid upper number-disk. There can be any number of. such pins and thedistance between every two pins corresponds with a' determined amount offees or with a determined'numher of operations of the rolling stamp. The

: pins are arrangedin' such a manner that the counting mechanism canbeadjustcd for a"determined amount or for a determined number ofrevolutions of the rolling stan 'Ove'r' the counter casing a hand 3/ isarranged, beside the operating arm 0,.said hand being in connection witha button yso that it can be adjusted by said button, a springbeing-provided for securing the parts y and y in the working position."

If during the use: of the rolling stamp the upper number disks Z of thecount in'g mechanism is 'advanccd'the locking disk to withthe pins 10 w"and soon, "connected with said number-disk, participates the rotatingmovement of said number disk. The-pinto" for instance will thus strikeagainst-the haild and move the same. until the advance movement is a;[an end. The lever .e'is arranged with regard to the hand y at suc'hadistance that it canjust pass along the. correspondii'igpin w, i045 andso on before the feed movement is finished. Duringthe feed movement thehand y; is :pushedby the pin' to into the path of same time lever 1 tactwith the end of the hand 3/;

anda'cts now upon the angle lever The arm n of this angle lever is incontact with the armt'. As lever. e is stopped in almost verticalposition by hand 3) the 'anglelever n cannot be freely oscillated bytheproj'ection a, the arm i being securely placed: on the circular pathof the arm a sothat the angle lever 12 prevents the passing along; oftheprojection ca. The printing cylinder is locked." I

.The' end of the hand is situated between the pins to and w. At a'point,visible fronr the outside, either at the top or at the side tothe'ca'sing, in proximity of the ,button y, a scale is provided thegraduations of which indicate for which amount the'hand is adjusted. Ifa new rolling'stamp is delivered or if a rolling stamp has been used forthe printing-fof' stamps up to' the prepaid amount the clerk adjusts thehand by means of the button 1 upon'the scale in accordance with. theamount which is paid. If for instance 1. 50.0.0 are paid the ap paratuscan be used" untilthe pin to which corresponds for instance to theamount of L. 50.0.0 or'to 1000 stamping comes in con- From this momentthe counting mechanism is locked and if the projection [1. acts upon therighthand side arm n of the angle lever, the left hand side arm of thesame presses against the arm 71 which is already looked as the a rm'cwhich operates the.

counting mechanism is locked, so that the le'vere cannotoscillate. Thearm i'is thus held on the path of the projection a'whereby thisprojection and consequently the rolling cylinder f are locked. 7

claim 1 1. A rolling stamp" with a locking device for automaticallylocking in the well known manner the counting mechanism at apredetermined number or value limit comprising in combination with thecounting mechaa nism, a printing cylinder, a lever pivotably mountedbetween said counting mechanism and said printing cylinder, a fork atthe up per end .ofsaid lever, an arm of the counting mechanism engagingwith said fork, two laterally projecting arms of the lower part of saidlever, a projection operated by the rolling stamp designed to act uponthe upper one of said arms for transmitting the movement of the printingcylinder to the counting mechanism, and a mechanism for locking saidtransmission means at the same time as the counting mechanism.

2. A rolling stamp with a locking device for automatically locking inthe well known manner the counting mechanism at a predetermined numberor value limit comprising in combination with the counting mechanism, aprinting cylinder, a lever pivotably mounted between said countingmechanism and said printing cylinder, a fork at the upper end of saidlever, an arm of the counting mechanism engaging with said fork twolaterally projecting arms of the lower part of saidlever, a projectionoperated by the printing cylinder designed to'act upon the upper one ofsaid arms for transmitting the movement of the printing cylinder to thecounting mechanism,,a spring influenced angle lever pivotably mountedbetween said transmitting lever and the printing cylinder so that one ofits arms is raised by said projection after the same has moved along thearm of said transmitting lever, whereby the second arm of said anglelever pushing upon said arm of'the transmitting lever returns the sameto the initial position, means forlocking the counting device if apredetermined figure is reached, and means for looking said angle leverin the oscillated position so that the projection is prevented fromoperating said transmission lever.

3. A rolling stamp with a locking device for automatically locking inthe well known manner the counting mechanism at a predetermined numberor value limit comprising in combination with the count ng mechanism, aprinting cylinder, a lever pivotably mounted between said countingmechanism and said printing cylinder, a fork at the upper end of saidlever, anarm of the counting mechanism engaging with said fork, twolaterally projecting arms of. the lower part of said lever, a catchoperated by the printing cylinder. designed to act upon the upper one ofsaid arms for transmitting the movement of the printing cylinder to thecounting mechanism, a spring influenced angle lever pivotably mountedbetween said transmitting lever and the printing cylinder so that one ofits arms is raised by said projection after the same has moved along thearm of said transmitting lever whereby the second arm of said anglelever pushing upon said arm of the transmitting lever returns the sameto the initial position, means for locking 4. A rolling stamp with alocking de- 7 vice for automatically locking in the well known mannerthe counting mechanism at a predetermined number or value limitcomprising in combination with the counting mechanism, a printingcylinder, a lever pivotably mounted between said counting mechanism andsaid printing cylinder, a fonk at the upper end of said lever,-an armof. the counting mechanism engaging with said fork, two laterallyprojecting arms of the lower part of said lever, a projection op eratedby the printing cylinder designed to act upon-the upper one of said armsfor transmitting the movement of the'printing cylinder to the countingmechanism, a spring influenced angle lever pivotably mounted betweensaid transmitting lever and the printing cylinder so that one of itsarms is raised by said projection after the same has moved along the armof said transmitting lever whereby the second arm of said angle leverpushing upon said arm of the transmitting lever returns the same to theinitial position, a spring influenced hand adjustably mounted upon thetop plate ofthe casing, a downwardly projecting point of said hand, adisk upon the upper figure disk of the counting device, spaced pins atthe circumference of said disk arranged so that the end ofsaid hand canengage between the same to lock thev counting device if a determinedfigure has been reached, aspring influenced axle below said countingmechanism,fan angle lever upon one end of said axle the upper arm ofsaid angle lever bearing normally against the bottom of the countingmechanism, a lever for operating the printingcylinder, a bend in thelower part of said lever with which engages the lower arm of said anglelever for locking the projection if the counting device is stopped. V I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

in presence of two witnesses.

HELENE KOMUSIN, geb. LIEDTKE. Witnessesi Y E. BUGDALIN, F. HUFERUNG.

